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Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice. -- Pierre Jean George Cabanis
Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken. -- Mu Xin
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude. -- Benjamin Franklin
We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments. -- Daniel Kahneman
I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script. -- Dennis Farina
Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about. -- E. F. Benson
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First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. -- Elliott Abrams
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. -- Kate Chopin
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. -- Charles Eastman
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. -- Margaret Fuller
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. -- Saul Bellow
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. -- Julius Charles Hare
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them. -- Kristen Stewart
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. -- Charlotte Bronte
The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given. -- Richard G. Scott
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. -- John Ruskin
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. -- Marquis de Sade
Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive. -- E. F. Benson
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. -- Edvard Munch
My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is one of disappointment. This change was the result of close observation on the spot. -- Chiang Kai-shek
For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression. -- Billy Zane
I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too. -- Donald Judd
The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong. -- Mitt Romney
First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide behind pads or helmets, so we can stare at them, evaluate every move they make: running, jumping, walking, even ogling the cheerleaders. We can see every ripple and tattoo. If they're lazy, we can tell. -- Bill Simmons
I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Also, I don't want to put my best foot forward and prove something, as that is not me. I would rather be me and have you like me for who I am, instead of being someone else. -- Emraan Hashmi
I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down. -- Jennifer Egan
I believe that first impressions are very important. -- F. W. de Klerk
I don't do impressions. -- Don Rickles
I can't do impressions. -- Ellie Kemper
First impressions are always unreliable. -- Franz Kafka
You guys like impressions? Why? -- Bo Burnham
I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions. -- Ana Gasteyer
Even my great grand-mother did impressions -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Im known for impressions and family stories. -- Jay Pharoah
First impressions never have a second chance. -- Charles R. Swindoll
With me it's always about first impressions. -- Billy Zane
The impressions of childhood are never obliterated. -- Frances Xavier Cabrini
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions. -- Leo Tolstoy
Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates ... -- Patti Smith
My daughter has impressions that she does of me. -- Kevin Hart
After years of doing impressions, its time for a change. -- Dan Castellaneta
It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting. -- Jessie Redmon Fauset
I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama. -- Baron Vaughn
You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams. -- Shakira
Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. -- George Eliot
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions. -- John Dean
the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions. -- Agnes Repplier
I never do impressions, but I probably should. People like that stuff. -- Norm MacDonald
Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much. -- Kristin Hannah
good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations. -- Renate Linnenkoper
First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members. -- Carolyn Hax
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized. -- William James
People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between. -- Bill Gross
You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music. -- Alan Palomo
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. -- John Ruskin
I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Successful social media marketing is not built on impressions. It is built on relationships -- Kim Garst
The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives. -- Maria Montessori
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. -- Gustav Mahler
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions. -- Claude Monet
If you do not have a memory like an elephant, leave impressions like one. -- Uknown
The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul. -- Aristotle
Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions. -- Milan Kundera
Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign. -- Jeb Bush
I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view. -- Kool Keith
The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past. -- Julia McNair Wright
I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. -- Daniel Handler
Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings. -- Steven Pinker
If judging people on first impressions were an Olympic sport, they'd suspect me of using steroids. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in. -- Jaggi Vasudev
First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do ... -- Katherine Anne Porter
I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue. -- Rory Bremner
America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable. -- Wojciech Jaruzelski
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable. -- Marquis de Sade
We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter. -- Tim Jackson
People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it. -- Ann Brashares
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. -- Walter Pater
I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions. -- Claude Monet
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. -- George Eliot
We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art. -- Eli Siegel
I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand. -- Don Adams
The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration. -- John Locke
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. -- Karl Kraus
The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions. -- Virginia Woolf
I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them. -- Bobby Moynihan
Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make. -- Elizabeth Bishop
I can prolly teach you lessons There's so much more that meets the eye upon your first impressions. -- G-Eazy
We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character. -- Epictetus
The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. -- Blaise Pascal
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. -- Charles Eastman
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition. -- Francoise Sagan
Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection. -- Daniel Breaker
Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving. -- Elizabeth Holmes
The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration. -- St. Catherine of Siena
A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. -- Bill Moyers
The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts. -- John Newbery
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood. -- Gustav Stresemann
The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions. -- Storm Jameson
I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game. -- Aries Spears
No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save. -- James Denney
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. -- Laurence Sterne
Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature. -- Stephen King
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. -- Gail Sheehy
Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice. -- Mu Xin
'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. -- Wilhelm Reich
Make sure you're doing impressions of people that are still relevant, and that everyone knows. Red Skelton impressions are a little outdated. -- Gabriel Iglesias
[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture. -- Sigmund Freud

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